Added a simple utilities file.

diff --git a/pdm/util.py b/pdm/util.py
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+"""Python Daemon Management -- Miscellaneous utilities
+
+This module contains various functions that may be useful to call from
+the PDM REPL.
+"""
+
+import sys, traceback, threading
+
+def threads():
+    "Returns a dict of currently known threads, mapped to their respective frames."
+    tt = dict((th.ident, th) for th in threading.enumerate())
+    return dict((tt.get(key, key), val) for key, val in sys._current_frames().iteritems())
+
+def traces():
+    "Returns the value of threads() with each frame expanded to a backtrace."
+    return dict((th, traceback.extract_stack(frame)) for th, frame in threads().iteritems())